Sunday, May 29, 2005

Will ManU bounce back

If you ask this same question to the pundits and men who are called the historian of the beautiful game you would be reminded of the Munich air crash and victory in the European cup about a decade later, the 99 UCL finals and some 1049987657 or so other matches in which the reds fought from behind and in the end yes, right at the death prevailed. As a fan I would like to believe them and get pumped up before the next season but I have a gut feeling that the next season wont be different from the last two.
I do feel we are witnessing the end of a great era , a decade of footballing excellence when we won everything our hearts desired but then this cant go on for ever. Every great run has to end, it took Liverpool 20 years to reach the finals of the european cup, nottingham forest and aston villa were once champions of Europe, where do they belong now. Its not that we don't have a good squad or so I can bet that this squad is capable of achieving what we did in 99 but its got to end some time, you cant receive daylight all day sun has to set and you have to move on. I am not saying that we will be relegated at once but we cant rule out not playing in the champions league in about 3 seasons or so which may come as a shock for most of the suppoters.
So, is the picture all gloomy cant some one save us? well yes GLAZER can save us he can become another Roman Abrahamovich and delay the fall by say another decade or so but if he fails we can be toying with relegation pretty soon. Football is full of surprizes but if ManU wins the Premiership next season it would be bigger than Liverpool winning the UCL.

The UCL Final 2005

This undoubtedly was one of the great football matches of all times, you know the kind of match after watching u just sit back and say " thats why football is called the beautiful game".
The game had it all a goal from Maldini inside a minute, 3-0 halftime score in a match between Milan & Liverpool, Milan conceeding 3, Dudek making stops, Shevchenko missing from 6 inches in the last minute of extra time and a shootout.
Yes, penalties it was a shootout to crown the champions of europe. Liverpool played well OK it was exceptional for just 6 minutes and stole the cup from milan who were the better side for about 114 minutes or so, Milan wont complain as they won the cup in Manchester on penalties too but its unfortunate to see the final being decided by the lottery of penalties ManU suffered in FA cup and it was milan in CL and both the times the team who were second best lifted the cup. These matches do have a fairytale ending are exciting to watch but something down inside tell u that this was not a fair result championships cant be decided by either a cointoss or a shootout.